This isn't the most recent and current portrayal, this stems from the current wiki article that
@Doshii Jun made and nothing else. If we are going to re-establish the Ketsurui Samurai we cannot have someone that changed the setting and broke it in the process running the show from here on out.
I don't intend to really get involved in this deliberation, but there's one thing I can't stand for, and it's this defamation of Doshii Jun.
Stop bullying my friend. I am angry that you're so ungrateful at his contribution. Don't mix my role in this with his.
Doshii is guilty of two things:
He's guilty of offering to help out fleshing out an organization Wes was barely touching for the for the benefit of people like... well,
you people. For a good span of time, it was enjoyed. It's no more evil an effort than Raz performed when he took a closer interest in SAINT.
He is also guilty of being made to help out when I determined that I could make what Wes desired with the Ketsurui Samurai be made possible. He gave his perspective, participated in a lot of brainstorming - and still does - to ensure the writting we do is at a certain level. As co-GM of my plot on top of that, Doshii bears a more direct pressure on 'does what we do end up actually being enjoyable, or having a good potential payoff'. Sometime, my head is in the clouds, and he brings me down to earth.
You people can think whatever you want of me as the architect of making a story out of what Wes said wanted to happen. But leave him alone.
*boo* *hiss*
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Now that I've got that cleared up, lets address another misconception.
Wes assumed the latest bit of my plot is in YE 38, but it's actually not dated, and my own plotship is supposed to be a Type 39 Nekovalkyrja Cruiser. That gives strong evidence that current going ons are in Q4 YE39, something I have absolutely no trouble conceeding given that it's at worst a minor inconvenience for me but enables much more credibility elsewhere. Timeline in SARP is iffy enough (our OoC roleplaying time is so significantly inferior to the amount of time we can ICly portray) that I find it can easily be adjusted to 'make more sense'. A small price to pay, that I'm willing to pay.
As for Raz, if he doesn't want to adhere to what Wes wants to see happen, I have no problem with it. Under his own standards, it might make his non-canon? That's his problem. And Wes', if he minds. I don't.
I really don't. Something had to be done. I could do it. I'm doing it. And there are always people that are going to second guess those whom take charge of something. It's just too easy to critique something from the sidelines without caring to see the actual effort and forethought in it. The nature of Raz' comments are usually reductive; he points out something and claims it sucks and then will use that as a platform to prop up his own argument. But I'm still confident with what I do, because I know my own value to the people I catter to.
I've been an enabler for something Wes wanted to achieve; I made a story out of something Wes
probably would've thrown out as a SANDRA news article. I've personally never needed the dissolution of the Ketsurui Samurai. I've pointed out when the issue was objected that if Wes wants to change his mind, I can retcon. I have a plan B and a plan C to move forward. I'm not screwed. It's just, if the retcon happens, it needs to be
soon because my playerbase is still roleplaying and I don't want to have to throw away a lot of their momentum if possible.
@Ira
Yamatai-wise, I consulted everyone I had to. That's Wes, to whom the Ketsurui Clan and the Ketsurui Samurai belong. And Doshii, since the Samurai are currently under his care. Nashoba was witness to a good part of it too.
I don't usually consult players when I plan things.
